San Jose airport was an electric place to be on the day they played Holland: whilst the match was on, no one wanted to board their plane, shops were half abandoned by staff and customers, every available screen was tuned to the match and workers were doing all they could to shift themselves to as close as possible to the nearest screen.

Elsa, left, is Italian and boyfriend Max is English but nails his football colours to the mast of Wales ever since England stopped selecting Steve Bull. For this World Cup, both supported Italy. Ho-hum.